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UNITED STATES T. LANGDON AND C. VEITMAN, OF I-IAZLETON, IOWA.

BRooM. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS LANGDQN and CHRISTIAN TVEITMAN, of Hazleton, 1n the county of Buchanan and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Brooms; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a broom constructed upon our improved plan. Fig. 2 is a transverse sect-ion taken through the broom of Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention is an improvement in construct-ing brooms of broom-corn, splints, or other suitable articles, without using thread or wire to hold the parts together as in the common practice at the present time. The brooms made upon our plan will be more durable, hold together longer less expensive and neater in appearance and more desirable in every respect than the cord or wire wrapped brooms. But the most important feature of our invention is that the same fixtures may be continually used, as often as the old broom is worn out. This is done by simply unscrewing the handle and loosening the screws of the T piece, when changing the broom corn or other material and tightening the whole again. Our invention for this purpose does not consist in the employment of clamping plates and screws nor caps and screws and nails, broadly but, it

consists in the use of a screw iron of a T- shaped metal cap for the ends of the wisps of broom corn two clamping plates between which the T iron is interposed, and a handle that secures the whole together in the manner hereinafter described and represented.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand our invention we will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawing A, represents a broom handle having on its end a nut a.

B, is a fiattened conical cap, which has a hole through its end, and the cap may be made of sheet iron or brass or any suitable metal.

C, is a screw rod that is set into the handle A, which rod has a T-piece B, secured on its end as shown in dotted lines Fig. l, with poles punched through it to receive the screws (Z, d.

D, D, are two flat plates having holes punched through them near each end,-these plates are of the same length, and their ends `are curved abruptly over.

Now with these parts the broom is put together in the following manner: The T- piece B, is laid between the two plates D, D, the four screws (Z, d, CZ, (l, are passed through them, uniting them at the extremity of the screws, the spaces between are then filled with the broom material and the screws tightened, the ends of the wisps are then inserted in the cap and the handle screwed on, thus confining the bundle in a iattened shape similar to ordinary brooms. The short ends of the broom corn are now brought compact-ly together and the conical cap slipped over them in a neat manner the screw rod C, passing through the hole in the heads of the cone, the handle is now screwed on to the rod C, and the whole is bound tightly together. The ends of the broom are then trimmed which completes the article for the market.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination of the T piece B, its rod C, clamping plates D, D, cap B, nut a, with the handle A, all relatively arranged in the manner herein set forth.

THCMAS LANGDON. CHRISTIAN WEITMAN.

fitnesses EDw. W'. TENNEY, SAMUEL FOURTNER. 

